Word: realisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What Yates provides is a very cautious and narrowly limited range of realism, but within that range he is expert. He describes the anguish of a lumpy, unathletic student who later redeems himself by becoming editor of the school paper, after he has been stripped and abused sexually by a gang of healthy fools: "Grove was set free and ran to his room, and for hours after that, alone in the darkness, he lay wondering how he was going to live the rest of his life." This is acute and poignant; so is the author's evocation...
...rooms. In his essay "The Artist of the Real," Alan Trachtenberg suggests Evans' work was inspired not by painters or by other artists, but by literature, the writings of Flaubert, Proust, Joyce, Whitman and Henry James. "He arrived at his proper point of view through the spirit of objective realism, aesthetic autonomy, respect for feeling and epiphany in common life, that he found in their writings." Evans claimed he saw in himself the combination of two people, Parisian street photographer Atget and Civil War photographer and historian Matthew Brady. In fusing these roles Evans became a kind of historian...
...even if his themes of the injustice of American society and the innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti are true, they are buried in the inevitable and agonizingly slow lurch towards a mawkish, yet depressing conclusion. Anderson's plays are strongly reminiscent of another expression of his times-Socialist Realism art. Like that famed WPA stuff, Winterset incorporates bold, tradition-smashing design with a sense of social justice; and like a Socialist Realism mural in a post office, it looks heavy and over-muscled-an awkward reminder of the not-so-distant past...
...same CIA man of the author's previous novel, Saving the Queen. The time of Stained Glass is 1952, the place West Germany; the plot backlights Buckley's faith in Western culture and his embattled vision of its decline in an age of nuclear realism and détente...
...unidentified thinks the recent association of Adams with homosexuality has been a major detriment to the House's popularity. The image, he said, is based on the immature reaction of freshmen to the open attitude with which homosexuality is viewed in Adams House. "You can call it liberalism or realism, but such tolerance certainly comes with maturity," the senior adds. Images, however, are often misleading, and stereotypes may destine a House, or a collection of Houses, to remain unpopular among deciding freshmen for many years to come...